Re: [steem] Organizing the Atari scene
- From: Tony <tony@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: steem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2004 11:59:42 -0500
Personally i dont mind forums, ( just not those damned wikis ) when
they are controlled to keep the rifraff out..
I agree that we are slowly loosing history, both due to attrition
of the community, hardware, software and general brain fade..
the problem is going to be where this will be and who will maintain
it.. Lots of Atari sites have disapeared off the face of the earth due
to good intentions fading away over time..
Perhaps some sort of distributed knowledge base would be the best..
something like how freenet does.. with those of us with space can
contribute to redundancy..
I know I've restarted trying to mirror things on cds.. just for when
things dissapear.. ( too bad most of my commercial software has
died in storeage over the years.. not sure how ill ever replace that
stuff since they are all out of business now, and Atari warez sites
are long gone.. )
But i for one will at least put my vote in to help in however i can...
On Monday 23 February 2004 11:14 am, you wrote:
> Hi Edouard and all,
>
> It would be great if the information on Atari
> (8bit/ST/Falcon/Jaguar/Lynx/Stacy/...) would be organized.
>
> Yes, experts should categorize the different aspects of each machine.
> The experts should also make searching the information at say the AHQ
> (Atari Head-Quarter) very simple. The experts should make it very simple to
> contribute information.
>
> But they wouldn't have to write everything themselves. Each and every
> Atari-fan can contribute. If you can't find the information at AHQ, you try
> to work it out.
> If you're successfull you can send a contribution to AHQ. If not you leave
> a question. Every active member in the community can see your question and
> answer it. If something is very much alive, the information will quickly
> become available online.
>
> You shouldn't wait too long. The amount of useful information on the
> machines is diminishing as we speak. We are growing older, and so are our
> memories.
>
> As an aside:
> I practically never use forums, too complex & you have to log in. But i
> love mailing-lists. Bet i'm not the only one.
>
> greetings,
>
> Martin de Vos
> dromer@xxxxxxxxx
> 2004-02-23
>
> ======= At 2004-02-21, 19:36:00 you wrote: =======
>
> >Hi Russell, I'm glad you reacted to my suggestion. You said it yourself:
> >there is too much information and only a few people maintaining the =
> >sites.
>
> ...
>
> >Edouard Lombard
>
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